One of the more polarizing filmmakers of recent times has passed away. Michael Cimino, the director of the Oscar-winning 1978 Vietnam War epic THE DEER HUNTER and, rather more infamously, HEAVEN'S GATE, has died at the age of 77:
"I don't think of myself as a star. I didn't set out to become a star, I set out to become a singer. I would have sung no matter what. The star part is just something that they made up in Hollywood in 1930." - Linda Ronstadt